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A Libertarian Review of Speculative Fiction and Literature
THE LIBERTARIAN TRADITION PODCAST | J.R.R. Tolkien as Libertarian
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12 years ago
THE LIBERTARIAN TRADITION PODCAST | J.R.R. Tolkien as Libertarian
In this episode of the Libertarian Tradition podcast series, part of the Mises Institute's online media library, Jeff Riggenbach makes the case that the author of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, can be counted as a libertarian.
Riggenbach argues that The Lord of the Rings is "both an allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power and an allegory of power exerted for domination." The story is a dramatization of Lord Acton's famous dictum that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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